Fred plays Pac Man on a VIC-20
The Retro Computer Festival, Centre For Computing History, Cambridge - 15th September 2018
Visiting the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge has been on the list for a while, but an email asking about references to the old Newbury/NewBear company out of the early 1980s from one of the curators leads to an invite to go along to their Retro Computer Day. Fred comes along too, to try out some of the old hardware and vintage computer games. After the nerd-fest, we meet back up with Isobel and Harry in the centre of Cambridge, before an almost-traditional visit to Pizza Express on Jesus Lane for tea.
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previous album: A Postcard from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire - 9th September 2018
Fred looks up close on a mega-scale CPU
Fred tries out an epic reconstruction of a CPU
Fred plays golf on an Acorn Archimedes
Fred is naturally drawn to the computerised Lego
A Sinclair PC200 'Professional Series'
ET in a Sinclair C5
Possibly the UK's largest collection of NewBrains
An original Atari Pong - the Grandaddy of all
An Exidy Sourceror
Someone lifts the lid of a Commodore 800
The American Spectrum - the Timex 1500
A room full of vintage hardware
A DEC PDP-11
A bit of Acorn history, featuring the ARM1
A signed BBC Micro
Sinclair's MK-14
Fred uses a rare laserdisc of the Domesday Project
In a recreation of a late 1970s office
Fred roams around
Fred in the games room
There's a working Altair 8800
Fred sits on the floor
Fred is fascinated by a punched tape reader
A version of Joseph Weizebaum's legendary Eliza
Fred's on another vintage computer
Back in the main museum room
Fred plays Chuckie Egg on a BBC Micro
An RM 380Z
Fred's back on the golf
There's some sort of interview going on
The train from Ipswich rumbles past
Fred climbs on a sculpture outside Carluccio's
Fred by a sculpture
Isobel and Harry return from a shopping spree
Posters outside the Corn Exchange
There's the usual chaos going on outside King's
Funky entrance to a nightclub
Harry and Isobel in Pizza Express on Jesus Lane
Harry in Pizza Express
On Jesus Lane
The boys on All Saints Passage
All Saints Garden craft market looks very autumnal
The entrance to St. John's College
On Trinity Street
The main entrance to Trinity College
Trinity Lane
Punts on the Cam
There's still some late-season punting to be had
More punts in a line
Clare College
The Cam by Clare College
There's a photo-shoot on Senate House Passage
Metal sculpture outside Great St. Mary's
There's a herd of sponsored walkers
Sponsored walkers on Corn Exchange Street
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Fred plays Pac Man on a VIC-20
Fred plays Pac Man on a VIC-20
Fred looks up close on a mega-scale CPU
Fred tries out an epic reconstruction of a CPU
Fred plays golf on an Acorn Archimedes
Fred is naturally drawn to the computerised Lego
A Sinclair PC200 'Professional Series'
ET in a Sinclair C5
Possibly the UK's largest collection of NewBrains
An original Atari Pong - the Grandaddy of all
An Exidy Sourceror
Someone lifts the lid of a Commodore 800
The American Spectrum - the Timex 1500
A room full of vintage hardware
A DEC PDP-11
A bit of Acorn history, featuring the ARM1
A signed BBC Micro
Sinclair's MK-14
Fred uses a rare laserdisc of the Domesday Project
In a recreation of a late 1970s office
Fred roams around
Fred in the games room
There's a working Altair 8800
Fred sits on the floor
Fred is fascinated by a punched tape reader
A version of Joseph Weizebaum's legendary Eliza
Fred's on another vintage computer
Back in the main museum room
Fred plays Chuckie Egg on a BBC Micro
An RM 380Z
Fred's back on the golf
There's some sort of interview going on
The train from Ipswich rumbles past
Fred climbs on a sculpture outside Carluccio's
Fred by a sculpture
Isobel and Harry return from a shopping spree
Posters outside the Corn Exchange
There's the usual chaos going on outside King's
Funky entrance to a nightclub
Harry and Isobel in Pizza Express on Jesus Lane
Harry in Pizza Express
On Jesus Lane
The boys on All Saints Passage
All Saints Garden craft market looks very autumnal
The entrance to St. John's College
On Trinity Street
The main entrance to Trinity College
Trinity Lane
Punts on the Cam
There's still some late-season punting to be had
More punts in a line
Clare College
The Cam by Clare College
There's a photo-shoot on Senate House Passage
Metal sculpture outside Great St. Mary's
There's a herd of sponsored walkers
Sponsored walkers on Corn Exchange Street